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smooth; sacculus weakly haired. Uncus absent. Socii absent. 

 Gnathos a simple weakly chitinized band. Aedoeagus long, stout, 

 tapering, slightly curved; cornuti a cluster of verj^ small slender 

 deciduous spines. 



Abdomen of male with lateral hair tufts from sternite of eighth 

 segment. 



Female genitalia with two thorn-like signa. Ductus bursac mod- 

 erately long; strongly chitinized toward genital opening and with 

 a chitinized patch near junction with bursa copulatrix. 



Monotypic and probably of tropical origin. The genus has hardly 

 a single character to define it, yet on the sum of its characters it fits 

 in none of the other genera. On wing pattern and general habitus it 

 should go with Talponia {T. pluTiimeriana and E. texanana differ 

 superficially only in color). On male genitalia and abdominal 

 characters it could go in Gra-pholitha. Its female genitalia (except 

 for the two signa) are those of DicKroramfha. Its hind wing vena- 

 tion is that of Ricula. A separate designation is therefore necessary 

 unless we are to confuse the definition of our other genera. 



Derived from Grcbpliolitha. 



ETHELGODA TEXANANA (Walsingham) 



(Figs. 26, 122, 287) 



Phthoroblastis texanana Walsingham, IUus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., 



vol. 4, 1879, p. 70. 

 Pammene texanana Fernald, In Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid. no. 5294, 1903. — 



Babnes and McDunnough, Claeclc List Lepid. Bor. Amer. no. 7268, 



1917. 



In pattern and general habitus similar to Talponia pluinmeriana 

 Busck, but with different genitalia and without the distinctly reddish 

 shade on outer half of fore wing. Thorax and basal half of fore 

 wing powder gray; outer half of v.ing brownish; from mid costa to 

 dorsum near tornus a straight narrow dull metallic band ; from costa 

 just beyond, a similar narrow band curving out to a point between veins 

 6 and 7 a short distance from termen thence inward to base of vein 3 

 and thence down to dorsum; termen finely edged with ocherous, 

 bordered near tornus by a dull metallic band ; a subterminal row of 

 small black dots or abbreviated dashes. Hind wing brown. 



Genitalia figured from specimens in National Collection from 

 Dallas, Tex. ("595," male) and Biscayne Bay, Fla. (female). 



The only specimens I have seen are three males from Texas and 

 the female from Florida from the Fernald collection in the National 

 Museum; one of these had evidently been referred to Walsingham 

 and determined by him. 



Alar expanse. — 10-13 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — Texas. 



